y\y>e you ready foe som e football? Raising their voices Friday ■ The annual Blue and Gold game kicks off at ■ Government professors share insights on Kosovo 1:30 p.m. this Saturday crisis and N ATO anniver­ A PR IL 23, at Notre Dame Stadium. SpOttS I FIS6 Tt sary. Viewpoint - 7-8 1999 O BSERVER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint M ary's VOL XXXII NO. 129 W W W .ND.EDU/-OBSERVER I was takin’ a bath Kosovo Crisis Milosevic to accept peace agreement Associated Press BELGRADE Yugoslavia's top leader will accept a U.N.-led force in Kosovo, but only if the bombing stops and NATO withdraws troops from his borders, a Russian envoy said Thursday. It was unclear whether such an international presence would be armed and under what guidelines it would operate. NATO has insisted it must lead an armed presence in Kosovo to enforce any peace agree­ ment. President Slobodan Milosevic has The Observer / Kevin Dalum so far rejected NATO demands to withdraw his troops from Kosovo Making the best of April showers, three students take time out from studying to splash around in puddles brought by yesterday’s thunder­ and grant autonomy to the ethnic storms. Rain will continue today, and temperatures should reach a high of 55. Clear skies should return Saturday with a high of 59. Albanian majority there. Following a daylong meeting with Milosevic, former Russian Premier Viktor Chernomyrdin told reporters NDFD fights blazes through daily prevention the two “ considered conditions for the return of the refugees’” and By MAUREEN SMITHE and saved three remaining inspected and fire-protected. think we have an easy job allowing international aid agencies News Writer cells of the cooling tower,” he “There are two modes a fire here, when in fact we are into the province. said. department can take with really busy. We’re not watch­ “ We considered the possibility of John Antonucci, Notre With 12 full-time firelight­ regards to fire fighting — a ing TV all day,” said Gordon an international presence led by the Dame Eire Department chief, ers and one full-time drain reactive mode or a proactive Martinczak, an EMT with U.N. in which Russia would take said that his department did a technician, the Notre Dame mode. Reactive mode is fire NDFD. part. Those are the basic principles superior job in handling last Eire Department (NDED) is suppression, while proactive So what exactly docs the we agreed upon,” Chernomyrdin Wednesday's cooling tower ready for any emergency on mode, which is the one we are fire department do all day? said, according to the ITAR-Tass blaze. the Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s in, is more of fire prevention,” “We average 1,100 to 1,200 news agency. “I would commend my men or Holy Cross campuses. Antonucci said. “We can not emergency responses a year lie added that they also discussed for an outstanding job. A four- Antonucci, a 1978 Notre be in a reactive mode because due to activated fire alarms, “ the continuation of talks about man engine company had four Dame graduate, leads his our resources are limited.” trash and vehicle fires, con­ wide autonomy for Kosovo, the pos­ hose streams on that fire three four-man teams in Notre Dame firefighters arc struction work and actual sible decrease of Serb forces in within minutes of their assuring that all 8 million constantly working to ensure room fires, usually due to can- Kosovo and simultaneous withdraw­ arrival. Their initial action led square feet of Notre Dame fire safety and protection. al of NATO forces." to a fairly successful ending property are regularly “People, for the most part, see N D F D / page 6 T.«» 0 NATO S BOTH ANNIVERSARY Summit to focus on Kosovo Associated Press a day earlier ordered an United States continued to update of plans for a possi­ oppose sending ground WASHINGTON ble ground invasion of troops into a hostile envi­ NATO leaders toned down Kosovo. Secretary of State ronment but added that it their plans for celebrating Madeleine Albright said the the alliance’s 50th birthday see S U M M IT / page 4 Thursday and pledged their summit would focus instead on plans for tougher steps, ■ N ews A nalysis p o s s ib ly in c lu d in g SEE ALSO Crisis brings new ground • Professors' troops, to guest columns s to p the challenges into focus bloodshed on NATO in Kosovo. p.7-8 By TIM LOGAN B r i t i s h News Editor Prime Minister Tony Blair said NATO’s summit would For 40 years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization send “the clearest possible (NATO) provided a mutual security system for western message of will and resolu­ European nations against the communist Warsaw Pact. tion” that Slobodan In the last decade, NATO has struggled to find a role for Milosevic will not prevail. itself in the post-Cold War world as the Soviet Union lias President Clinton con­ faded from the international picture. ferred at the White House AFP PHOTO with NATO Secretary- NATO's 50th anniversary plans were altered to discuss military tactics in Kosovo General Javier Solana who sec FO C U S / page 6 instead. Leaders will evaluate sending ground troops to stop bloodshed. page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Friday, April 23, 1999 INSIDE COLUMN ROTC C tlutside the Dome Revealed ™ Compiled from U-Wire reports Colorado students agonize over high school shooting "Nonviolence only works against civilized people." — Tom Clancy, SLF 1997 BOULDER, Colo. tion on the crisis. Some, like So began the infamous answer given by the Colorado University freshman Twisselman, went to Littleton to be very tactful Mr. Clancy while answering a Mike Twissclman was lifting weights with their families. question on Gandhi. in the when he learned his sister Students without personal connec­ Clancy went on to say Dustin Ferrell m ight be dead. tions to the Denver suburb moni­ that Gandhi would Assistant Viewpoint Editor A friend came in at 12:45 p.m. and tored the situation on the Internet have been shot if he told him about two students dressed and on TVs they dragged into their had taken his movement to Afghanistan. This in black trench coats going into classrooms. CU professors also angered many pacifist-minded people in the Twisselman's old school, Columbine watched with interest — as parents audience, and understandably so. But I am High School, and firing indiscrimi­ understanding the horror of the sit­ curious to know how many were bothered by nately. He told him about the horrif­ and left. He borrowed a friend’s uation, as researchers understand­ the simple fact that the statement was dead ic television reports. He told him motorcycle, sped to Littleton and ing the causes of the situation and on target. about the carnage of what became eventually arrived at Columbine as humans understanding the pain 1 wish this was not the case, since any and the worst school shooting in Library, a few blocks away from the of the situation. all decisions to use U.S. troops in the conlict American history — leaving 15 dead high school. The bloodshed began at about 11 in Kosovo directly affect myself and many and another 23 in the hospital. He still knew nothing about Katie, a.m. when two students walked into others on this campus. I truly hope pacifism “1 knew that was right when lunch his sister. school and began spraying bullets begins to influence the decisions of world started," Twisselman said Tuesday “I felt kinda mad, kinda scared," and detonating bombs. leaders so that we may find an end to the night from his dorm room. “And 1 said Twisselman, a 210-pound Part of the so-called Trenchcoat horrible pain and suffering caused by war. knew exactly where my sister was — punter for the CU football team. Mafia, a group of outcast students At least that’s what I would tell you if I ever she was in the choir room. So I was “Sometimes I wanted to cry.” distinguished by their trench coats, considered the moral aspects of war. Many like ’uh-oh.’” Across campus, graduates of the duo apparently targeted ethnic would find it hard to believe that I would do Twisselman, a 1998 Columbine Columbine stayed glued to their minorities, athletes and anybody such a thing. I read recently that ROTC is not graduate, quickly changed clothes televisions for every bit of informa­ else they had a grudge against. “serving the purpose they should serve,” to paraphrase. Reluctantly but willingly, I shall divulge the contents o f my ROTC education to 0 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA 0 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY the student body. The following involves a typical week in my life in ROTC: Sweatshop protestors occupy offices ACLU criticizes ban from town Monday: We start off early with physical training. Afterwards, we are marched to an DURHAM, N.C. EAST LANSING. Mich. underground viewing room for a motivational Students for Economic Justice is frustrated at the admin­ A decision to ban certain people from East Lansing film, such as “Apocalypse Now.” istration’s slow pace toward agreement on several because of their alleged involvement in the March 27-28 Tuesday: This involves our weekly drill ses­ demands. Twenty anti-sweatshop activists from the riot there has drawn criticism from the American Civil sion, which equates to goose-stepping around University have taken up residence in the school’s adminis­ Liberties Union. East Lansing judges ruled that six peo­ Loftus for an hour.